Re: [Gaim-devel] [Gaim-i18n] Frozen for 2.0.0

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Javier Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino Pe=F1a spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Wouldn't it be possible to change all of those to:
>=20
> msgid "True if the command specified in the \"command\" key should handle=
 \"%s\" "
> "URLs."
> msgid "Whether the specified command should handle \"%s\" URLs"
> and
> msgid "The handler for \"%s\" URLs"
>=20
> That way new translators would not have translate 20+ messages which are =
more
> or less variations of the same and translators that have that up-to-date
> would not have to translate again the phrase when a new protocol is added.

The problem with this is languages in which the protocol name needs to
be declined in some fashion, to fit into the sentence.

> Is there going to be any beta release with all the translations available=
 up
> to a point so that translators can test how the translation shows up on
> screen? If this is not the case we will have to compile the latest versio=
n on
> our own to test the translations and detect some common issues (translati=
ons
> which go over the allocated window size, por example)

You should be able to test this by inserting your translations into a
beta6 build, right?

Ethan

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